Search Results: California from Diatrope Books

California Historical Society, 2001. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. 21 black-and-white plates depicting forms of transportation from earlier eras. Introduction by Janet R. Fireman. Measures 7x10 inches.

Arcadia, 2016. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Signed by author, with autographed copy sticker on cover. Illustrated throughout, including a map. 128p. Measures 6.5x9.25 inches. Alameda County spans from the shores of the San Francisco Bay to the golden inland hills. Alameda County Fire Department (ACFD) is comprised of multiple consolidated agencies that began joining forces and sharing resources in 1993. Its legacy stretches back 140 years, recalling the shared experiences of bucket brigades, teams of horses pulling steam-engine pumpers down muddy roads, the advent of motorized apparatus, and the days when school boys would be pulled from class to ride tailboard to fight blazes in the hills.

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Black and White illustrations throughout. Articles include "Banking in Gold Rush San Francisco" by Charles A. Fracchia, "Gold as a Cumbersome, Curmudeonly Commodity, 1849-1870" by Robert J. Chandler, and "Good Ethics is Good Business: Wells Fargo Aids Commerce through Banking, Express, and Letter Delivery, 1852-1859" by Robert J. Chandler. 99p. Measures 8.5x11 inches.

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, 2006. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Black and White illustrations throughout. Includes "The Incredible Case of Warren K. Billings and Thomas J. Mooney" by John Ralston, "The Art of Timothy Pflueger" by Timothy Keegan, and "Golden Children" by Judith M. Taylor. Measures 8.5x11 inches. 100p.

San Francisco Museum and Historical Society, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Spot on cover. Black and White illustrations throughout. Includes "Building a Civil Society in San Francisco" by Monica Clyde, "San Francisco, City of Flowers" by Timothy F. Keegan, "An Architect by the Bay: John H. Powers and the firm Power and Ahnden of San Francisco" by Christopher Carlsmith. Measures 8.5x11 inches. 88p.

Oakland Museum of Art and The Crocker Museum with University of California Press, 1998. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. French flaps. Beautifully illustrated. This catalog, published in celebration of the sesquicentennial of the 1848 discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill, shows the vitality of the arts in the Golden State during the latter nineteenth century and documents the dramatic impact of the Gold Rush on the American imagination. Artists include William Smith Jewett, Charles Christian Nahl, A. D. O. Browere, and others. 148p. Measures 9x10 inches. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Biographies of the artists.

Pomegranate, 2011. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked. Dust jacket (unclipped) under clear mylar cover. Featuring more than fifty artworks from the mid-1800s to the present, all from the collections of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Artistic San Francisco celebrates the sites and experiences of this extraordinary city through the eyes of the artists while providing a rare opportunity to witness the citys many changes over the past century and a half. Artists include Bechtle, Bierstadt, Deakin, Diebenkorn, Muybridge, Thiebaud, Watkins, and others

California Energy Commission, 1991. Stapled. Acceptable. Ex-library. Consultant report. Re-evaluates the long-term projections of electric generating potential of California's liquid-dominated geothermal reservoirs. Updates the USGS survey of the mid-1970s. References. 34p.

RSB Books, 2000. First Edition. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Richard Schwartz took a collection of newspaper articles to tell the story of a hopeful town in its early days. Old photographs from the era are interwoven with quotes from people of the town in 1906 and 175 hundred year old photographs. There are a total of about 650 newspaper articles from 1900 and 1905.

Renaissance House, 1993. Booklet (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. A few notations of title page. Map. Color images of each specimen. Designed for bird watchers, with a wide range. Birds include loon, ocean birds, egrets, ducks, hummingbirds, magpies, wrens, bluebirds, and more. 49p. Measures 4x9 inches.

University of California Press, 2021. Hardcover. Very Good/very good. Unmarked text. Unclipped dust jacket under clear mylar cover. 364p. Measures 6.25x9.5 inches. Notes. Bibliography. Index. An in-depth history of the Los Angeles neighborhood, showcasing it dynamic, multiracial residents.

Public Policy Institute Of California, 2007. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. The author focuses on the two distinct stages in which budgets are made: first, during communications between the governor's budget office and executive agencies, and second, when the executive branch communicates its budget proposal to the legislature. 79p.

Diamond National Corporation, 1958. Paperback (Saddle Stitched). Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated with historic photographs and an operations map of the Sierra Flume and Lumber Company and others companies operating in that area inside back cover. Includes a quest for lumber, the rush for gold, the birth of an industry, growing pains in the pineries, Empire Lumber Company, Blue Ridge Flume and Lumber Company, Butte Flume and Lumber Company, Flumes and fluming, Sierra Flume and Lumber Company, Sierra Lumber Company, and the Diamond National Corporation. 33p. Measures 8.25x11 inches.

California Historical Society, 2001. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated in color and black-and-white. Includes Winston Churchill in California, Pasadena, Carey M. Williams, and more. Measures 8.5x11 inches. pp162-256.

California Historical Society, 1993. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated in black-and-white. Includes the early University of California Press, Clarence King, Gerald Haslam, Wallace Stegner, and others. Measures 8.5x11 inches. pp222-302.

California Historical Society, 2000. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes "Splendide California: Selections by French Artists in California History 1786-1900" by Claudine Chalmers, "Come Back, Tom Joad" by Bryant Simon and William Deverell, Mark A. Eifler on the Gold Rush, Sacramento, 1849-1850, Alan Fraser Houston on Cadwalder Ringgold, a Gold Rush surveyor

California Historical Society, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. Illustrated. Includes a brief history of the California History journal, adobe brick making, Mary Floyd Williams, Adele Ogden, Helen Mabry Ballard, and more. 78p.

University of California, Berkeley, Alumni Association, 2014. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked. Mailing Label on cover. Featured stories include "The Rhetoric and Reality of Free Speech" by Seth Rosenfeld, "Radical Roots" by Kenneth Brower, "Death to the Fascist Insect" by Michael Taylor, "Radical Berkeley," "Economic Leverage" by Chris A. Smith and more Glen Martin, "Coloring in the lines" by Alina Tugend and "Strange Rumblings in Berkeley" by Krissy Eliot, and more. Illustrated throughout. 80p. Measures 8.25x10.5 inches.

Foghorn Press, 1995. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. This book reveals more than 1,000 hikes in California. It includes 100 state parks, 12 national parks, 383 drive-to lakes, and 483 hike-to lakes in remote wildlands such as East Mohave Desert. 60 maps. 855p. Measures 5.5x8.5 inches.

University of California Press, 1999. Paperback. Very Good. Unmarked text. California Historical Society, Winter 1998-99, Volume 77, No. 4. Corner crease on cover. Includes Ronald H. Limbaugh on tool innovation in the Gold Rush; Maureen A. Jung on capitalism and the Gold Rush; Daniel Cornford on Labor and Capital in the Gold Rush; Raymond F. Dasmann on Gold Rush environmental change; Donald J. Pisani on Law; Duane A. Smith on Mining; and more. 319p. Index. Black-and-white illustrations throughout, with a section of color plates.